Display device



Patented May 26, 1925.

UNITED sTATEs SIDNEY A. STORER, 0F NEW YORK, N. Y.

DISPLAY DEVICE.

Application led August 30, 1923. Serial No. 660,107.'

To all fr0/tom it may concern.'

Be it known that I, SIDNEY A. S'ronnn, a citizen of the United States, residing at New York, in the county of New York, State of New York, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Display Devices, of .which the following is a full, clear, concise.

and exact description.

This invention relates to display devices and more particularly to collapsible display cards for show window advertising and the like, and its object is a device which is economical to manufacture, readily folded into compact form for shipment, and which when set up for display will stand rmly and be self supporting.

The invention comprises a single sheet of cardboard or the like, which, by scoring, is divided into a main central panel,two or more wing panels and intermediate panels connecting the wing panels to the central panel and, in case more than two wing panels are employed, connecting adjacent wing panels. The wing panels are provided at their lower ends with extensions which are cut out of the intermediate panels, and which lie in the same plane as the wing panels when the device is set up and serve as supporting feet to prevent the device from falling forward. For purposes of symmetry and ornamentation, similar extensions of the wing panels may be provided at the top or at such other positions on the wing panels as the requirements of a particular advertising problem may dictate.

The device of this invention may have the several panels suitably adorned with pictorial or other advertising matter, and when set up for display, will give the effect` of a miniature stage setting having a background, wings and proscenium.

The invention will be more clearly understood by reference to the accompanying drawing in which Fig. 1 shows the display card set up for exhibition, Fig. 2 illustrates the manner of cutting and scoring a single sheet of card to produce the device of Fig.

1, and Fig. 3 yillustrates how the device may be folded into compact form for shipment.

Referring to the drawings, 1 is a central Y panel, 2, li, G and 8, are wing panels, and 3,

5, 7 and 9 are intermediate panels, the card being scored along the dotted lines of Fig. 2 to permit the card to be collapsedwith the :torni shown in Fig. 3 or partially extended from that form into the display position shown in Fig. 1. y

The bottom extensions 10, 11, 12 and 13 of the wing panels 2, 1, 6 and 8, are cut from `the intermediate panels 3, 5, 7 and 9, respectively, and fold in the same plane with the wing panels to form supporting feet for the device. Extensions 111, 15, 16 and 17 are similarly formed at the top of the wing pan els 2, t, 6 and'8 to give a proscenium effect.

In the embodiment of the invention here illustrated two sets of wing panels and intermediate panels are shown. It is to be understood, however, that one or more sets@ of wing and intermediate panels may be employed without departing from the spirit and scope of the invention.

The invention claimed is:

1. A display card comprising a central panel, wing panels, intermediate panels connecting said central panel with said wing panels and bottom extensions on said wing panels cut out of said intermediate panels and serving as means for stabilizing said device when set up'. y

2. A multi-plane display card comprising a central panel, `wing panels, intermediate In witness whereof, I hereunto subscribe my name this 28 day of August A. D., V1923.k

SIDNEY A. STORER. 

